Amanda

“We fool ourselves that we can protect the people we love, because if we accepted the truth we’d never let them out of our sight.”
― Fredrick Backman, The Winners

“It’s not real. It’s just a story,” I said to her. I felt her great black-and-white head bob up and down. She filled me with waves of frothy hope as she said, “Dear Crow, it is all just story.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Feral Creatures

“When we are little we grieve for the person we have lost, but when we’re older we grieve even more for ourselves. He wept for her loneliness, but also his own.”
― Fredrick Backman, The Winners

“Stories suture up our wounds, stitch us back together. They keep our loved ones alive.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Feral Creatures